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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass : An American Slave and Incidents in the Life of a ...

ISBN: 9780312075316 | 0312075316
Format: Paperback
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Pub. Date: 3/1/1993

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SummaryTable of Contents
This edition of Douglass' Narrative reprints -- for the first time -- this classic document together with speeches and letters, all in a volume designed for under-graduate students. An extensive introduction places the Narrative in its historical and literary contexts with annotations on needed background.
Forewordv(2)
Prefacevii
INTRODUCTION "A Psalm of Freedom"1(24)
PART ONE The Document25(92)
Editor's Note on the Text
... MORE		27(2)
Preface
29(7)
William Lloyd Garrison, May 1, 1845
Letter from Wendell Phillips, Esq., April 22, 1845
36(3)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself
39(70)
Notes on the Text
109(8)
PART TWO Selected Reviews, Documents, and Speeches117(30)
Caleb Bingham
"Dialogue Between a Master and a Slave," in The Columbian Orator (1797)
119(2)
Margaret Fuller
Review of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, New York Tribune, June 10, 1845
121(3)
Ephraim Peabody
"Narratives of Fugitive Slaves," excerpt, Christian Examiner, July 1849
124(4)
Nathaniel P. Rogers
"Southern Slavery and Northern Religion," two addresses delivered in Concord, New Hampshire, February 11, 1844, as reported in (Concord, N.H.) Herald of Freedom, February 16, 1844
128(2)
Frederick Douglass
"My Slave Experience in Maryland," an address delivered in New York City, May 6, 1845, as recorded in National Antislavery Standard, May 22, 1845
130(4)
Frederick Douglass
Letter to Thomas Auld, September 3, 1848, published in The North Star, September 8, 1848; and The Liberator, September 22, 1848
134(7)
Frederick Douglass
"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" speech delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852
141(6)
APPENDICES147(10)
A Douglass Chronology (1818-1895)147(6)
Questions for Consideration153(2)
Selected Bibliography155(2)
Index157

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